Rival Gardens
eBook - ePub

Rival Gardens

New and Selected Poems

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rival Gardens

New and Selected Poems

About this book

For decades a restorer of old homes, Connie Wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere, encountered as easily in the waterways, landscapes, and winters of Minnesota, as in the old roofs and darkened drawers of a home long uninhabited. Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along with poems selected from three previous books—all in Wanek's unmistakable voice: plainspoken and elegant, unassuming and wise, observant and original. Many of her new poems focus on the garden, beginning with the Garden of Eden. A deep feeling for family and for the losses and gains of growing into maturity mark the tone of Rival Gardens, with Wanek always attending to the telling detail and the natural world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction by Ted Kooser
  9. SELECTIONS FROM "Bonfire"
  10. April
  11. Red Fox
  12. Abstract
  13. Wild Apples
  14. The Girl and the Horses
  15. Daylilies
  16. The Wandering Sky
  17. Broom
  18. Skim Milk
  19. Radish
  20. Radiator
  21. Missed Bus
  22. Duluth, Minnesota
  23. Blue Moon
  24. The Gelding
  25. Dragonfly
  26. Rain
  27. Toward Dusk
  28. Peonies
  29. Amaryllis
  30. Christmas Tree
  31. January
  32. Bonfire
  33. Ski Tracks
  34. SELECTIONS FROM "Hartley Field"
  35. The Coin Behind Your Ear
  36. The Ventriloquist
  37. Butter
  38. Peaches
  39. Red Rover
  40. Jump Rope
  41. Horses in Spring
  42. Summer Night
  43. Lemon
  44. Long Nights
  45. Postcard: Busy Clarence Town Harbor on a Mail Boat Day
  46. Honesty
  47. Black and White Photograph
  48. Memorial Day at the Lake
  49. The Midwife
  50. The Exchange
  51. Children Near the Water
  52. A Field of Barley
  53. Checkers
  54. So Like Her Father
  55. The Hammer
  56. Tag
  57. Late September
  58. New Snow
  59. Grown Children
  60. Heart Surgery
  61. All Saints’ Day
  62. Christmas Fable
  63. After Us
  64. Hartley Field
  65. SELECTIONS FROM "On Speaking Terms"
  66. First Snow
  67. Monopoly
  68. Nothing
  69. Tracks in the Snow
  70. The Accordion
  71. Scrabble
  72. Directions
  73. Lipstick
  74. Everything Free
  75. Fishing on Isabella Lake
  76. Garlic
  77. Rags
  78. Lady
  79. Confessional Poem
  80. Walking Distance
  81. The Splits
  82. Buttercups
  83. Closest to the Sky
  84. Comb
  85. Umbrella
  86. Picture Yourself
  87. The Death of My Father
  88. A Sighting
  89. Green Tent
  90. Pumpkin
  91. A Random Gust from the North
  92. Musical Chairs
  93. A Parting
  94. Pecans
  95. Old Snow
  96. Pickles
  97. Coloring Book
  98. Blue Ink
  99. Six Months After My Father’s Death
  100. Honey
  101. Leftovers
  102. Ice Out
  103. New Poems
  104. Garter Snake
  105. Pollen
  106. Rival Gardens
  107. The Summerhouse
  108. Polygamy
  109. The Neighbor’s Pond
  110. An Ordinary Crisis
  111. Mysterious Neighbors
  112. Catbird
  113. Root Words
  114. Rain Collection
  115. Blue Flags
  116. “Golden Glow”
  117. Blackbirds at Dusk
  118. First House
  119. Last Star
  120. Part Two
  121. Used Book
  122. Ghost Town
  123. When I Was a Boy
  124. Audience
  125. John Q. Public
  126. A Collection of Near Misses
  127. Adaptation
  128. Plein Air
  129. The Death of the Battery
  130. Girdle
  131. Parts per Million
  132. Mrs. God
  133. Genesis, Cont.
  134. Day of Rest
  135. Business
  136. First Love
  137. Part Three
  138. Artificial Tears
  139. I Heard You Come In
  140. Pavement Ends
  141. The Shoes of the Dead
  142. A Last Time for Everything
  143. Practice
  144. Phoebe
  145. They Live with Us
  146. Recalled to Life
  147. Walleye
  148. Wild Asters
  149. Brave Rabbits
  150. Brave Rabbits, a Second Look
  151. A Marsh at Twilight
  152. The Second Half of the Night
  153. Cabbage Moth
  154. Garden Gloves
  155. Also by This Gardener
  156. About Connie Wanek
  157. Series List